When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.
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The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
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